SSDs for everyone? Not so fast

Somewhere far removed from the cacophony of big news stories emerging last week, Samsung quietly uttered three magical and potentially momentous words: “SSDs for everyone.” Solid state drives have long been regarded as the heir apparent to hard disk storage, promising to revolutionize the PC user experience with dramatically improved speed and reliability. Samsung’s bold new marketing slogan, introduced in Seoul on Thursday, signals the company’s intent to bring SSDs to the widest possible audience of consumers, literally everyone. But is the big component supplier overreaching with its promise? Or are we already living in the SSD age?